G. P. Li is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, with appointments in three Departments: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering. He serves as Irvine Division Director of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Director of UCI’s Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. He also serves as chair of executive committee of Electronics manufacturing research and new materials sector in UC Discovery. He holds 6 US patents and has published over 240 research papers involving microelectronic semiconductor materials/devices/technologies, mixed signal digital/analog/microwave microelectronic circuit design, RF-MEMS communication systems, Bio-nano technology, and Bio-MEMS instrument for life sciences. During his tenure as a research staff member and manager of the technology group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 1983 to 1988, he worked in the area of silicon bipolar (0.5 um and 0.25 um) VLSI technology and process-related device physics, as well as researching optical switches and optoelectronics for ultra-high-speed IC measurements. He also led a research/development team to transfer the bipolar VLSI technology from research to manufacturing in IBM. In 1987, he chaired the committee for defining IBM semiconductor technology roadmap for beyond the year 2000. He has been a member of numerous technical committees at professional conferences, and in 2006 was the chair for the Taiwan VLSI Technology, Circuit, and System Conference. He received the outstanding research contribution award from IBM (1987), outstanding engineering professor award from UCI (1997, 2001), UCI Innovators Award (2005), and Best paper award in the ITC International Telemetering Conference (2005). His current research interests focus on “LifeChips”, which represent the convergence and fusion of two large, important industries: Life Sciences (including biotech and biomedical devices) and IT (including consumer, computing, and communication) microelectronics (chips).